Adding another PDL for visibility. Regards Rajiv Jain
On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM Rajiv Jain < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fellows, > > Just to elaborate on Piyush’s ask, cloudstack user has got a new feature > added where while creating independent cloudstack-volume, user would get > ‘create on storage’ toggle appearing on the UI. > > If toggle is enabled then cloudstack calls for createAsync workflow > immediately and desired objects would be created on the underneath storage > and state of volume would appear as ready in CS UI. > > If toggle is disabled then CS only creates metadata in the CS DB, no call > goes to underneath storage. And volume state would appear as allocated. And > while attach workflow on this volume, call would go to storage and it would > create desired objects on the storage. > > Framework code is added in the VolumeServiceImpl class for this toggle. > > Query is, while this toggle is enabled, format for the disk is expected to > be set as per chosen hypervisor. In absense of this format, subsequent > workflow of snapshot is found to be failed. > > We propose to set this format in VolumeServiceImpl itself by which all the > vendors will get benefit of it. Or we can add this setter for format in our > driver class for creAsync method. > > Can you share you thoughts on this soon since it is important to go in > 4.23 else multiple customers may get impacted in snapshot workflows. > > Regards > Rajiv Jain > > > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 7:59 PM, Piyush Srivastava < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Team, >> >> I was using the "Create on Storage" option in Create Volume wizard for >> creating and attaching the volume to a particular instance. >> I can see the volume is created as well as attached to the instance. >> But when I cross checked the db for the format set for this volume , I >> see it as "NULL" rather than actual format . >> Is there any issue seen due to this null format set? >> >> [image: image.png] >> mysql> select name,format from volumes where name="testAttach1"; >> +-------------+--------+ >> | name | format | >> +-------------+--------+ >> | testAttach1 | NULL >> >> I have observed the issue while creating a snapshot for that volume. Checking >> here for blast radius of the issue before raising a PR and if it is >> critical for 4.23.0. >> >> Thanks, >> Piyush >> >
